Staff Misconduct
This topic features news, training and information related to cases involving potential or perceived misconduct in corrections. This section serves the important function of pointing out, not pointing fingers, when a CO has gone outside the lines.
The ex-Northern State Prison officer pleaded guilty to conspiracy and will lose his job, $6K in proceeds and the right to hold public office in N.J.
Federal prosecutors allege the Augusta State Medical Prison officers left a mentally ill inmate in a smoke-filled cell for hours, leading to his death in 2020
The former SCI-Forest CO is accused of performing sex acts on three inmates and accessing life-sentenced prisoners’ personal data for a fraud scheme
“Despite the claims set forth in her lawsuit, [the deputy] was terminated after she posted a photograph of an incarcerated individual on social media, and was observed visiting him while in the jail,” an official said
The officer had disclosed past drug use, including abuse of prescription drugs, LSD and cocaine, on his application
A sheriff’s office spokesman said the officers were work-release deputies who accepted bribes and transported an inmate during a night shift to a motel to have sex with a deputy
The officer said he was passed over for promotion in January after reporting sexual misconduct allegations against his supervisor
John R. Gallagher, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree sexual assault in August
The officers were trying to smuggle contraband into two separate facilities
The officer must forfeit $15,000 in bribe payments, and register as a sex offender
Laurie Watt, 47, admitted to trying to bribe a fellow CO for access to an inmate
Valerie Victor said she’d had “non-professional relationships” with four inmates
The move was an attempt to put an end to some sheriffs’ longstanding practice of pocketing “excess” state money they receive to feed state inmates
The lawyer pressed a “duress button” and even banged on a glass window before two deputies finally came to let her out
An inmate told the DOC the CO had said he was willing to smuggle in “anything except needles and heroin”
The officer allegedly then messaged her on social media about her tattoos and scars
Investigation only began after one official felt another had ‘cheated’ at the game
The U.S. Department of Justice opened a federal civil rights investigation into sexual abuse of inmates in July
The family of the man who died claim jail staff failed to ensure the man took needed medication, did not monitor his cell as required and covered up their acts
Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles had been charged for the death of an inmate who was confined in a restraining chair for more than two days
Two former inmates at a Maine prison say a CO ignored another inmate’s repeated requests to be moved before he was found dead
Perhaps the most common form of corruption in prisons is the smuggling in of contraband
Norman Seabrook was arrested in 2016 on conspiracy and fraud charges
Kashka Meadors was charged after ordering the water turned off in a jail cell leading to the dehydration death of an inmate
The 3 escapees remain at large
The violence started after inmates believed COs used excessive force against an intoxicated inmate, who was combative and assaulted an officer
The inmate reportedly used a makeshift dummy to dupe officers into thinking he was in his cell
The suit marks the latest event in a long-running scandal that has rocked the county’s criminal justice system
A former CO is among nine defendants named in a new lawsuit related to the ongoing prison sex abuse investigation
The charges stem from an investigation that began in July 2016, after attorney Matthew Comerford filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of one woman
The push comes after seven current and former COs were arrested on sex charges involving female inmates
A company that provides health care for inmates at the jail faces criminal charges because employees lied about checking on a man who died of dehydration
The interim Milwaukee sheriff says two jail staffers charged in the dehydration death of an inmate have resigned and a third is facing termination